Magazine for hand-firearms



W. E. ROSEBUSH.

- MAGAZINE FOR HAND FIREARMS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25. 1920.

1,375,322, Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

WITNESSES m WALDO ER05BUH 7 By ATTORNEYS Y WALDO E. ROSEBUSH, 0F SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

MAGAZZNE F OR HAND-FIREARMS.

. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 1 9, 1921.

Application filed June 25, 1920. Serial No. 391,581.

7 '0 all whomit may concern Be it known that I, W'ALoo E. RosEBUsH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Spokane, in the county of Spokaneand State of Washington, have invented a new and Improved Magazine for HancLFirearms, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

The invention relates to firearms, such, for instance, as shown in the Letters Patent of the United States, No. 1,291,688 and No. 1,311,715, granted to me on January 4,

1919, and July 29, 1919, respectively.

time the uppermost cartridge leaves the magazine and is pushed forward into the barrel. e

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims. V

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly insection, of a hand firearm provided with the improved magazine;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the improved magazine; I

Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross section of the upper portion of the magazine with the parts in position at the time the uppermost cartridge leaves the magazine; and V Fig. 4 is a similar View of the same with the parts in normal position. v

In hand firearms such as above'referred to, it sometimes happened that the leaden bullet of a 22-caliber short or long rifle cartridge slipped forward when the uppermost cartridge was being pushed into the rear end of the barrel. It was thus liable to be wedged on the inclineleading to the rear end of the barrel. By the action described theleadenbullet was more or less arm" emu.

scraped or gouged by the rim of the top 4 The firearm shown inFig. l comprises in its general construction a main frame 10 provided with a suitable handle 11 and on' which is mounted a barrel receiver 12 carrying a barrel 13. A breech block 15 is mounted to slide on the barrel receiver 12 and is provided with a firing pin 16 adapted.

to be engaged by a hammer 17 to fire the uppermost cartridge 18 pushed intothe rear end of the barrel 12 by the v breech bloclr15, as more fully described in the patents above referred to. The magazine 20 containing the'car tridges l8 is removably held in the handle 11 and is adapted to hold short or long cartridges, it being understood that for;

short cartridges use is made of a U-shaped filling piece, as more fully described in the patent above referred to. For long cartridges, the filling piece is removed from the magazine to provide additional space for the increased length of the long cartridges shown in Fig. 1. 7 By reference to Fig. 1 it will be noticed that the cartridges are in positions with their axes parallel to the axis of the barrel 13, and the cartridges are superposed with the rear portions slightly staggered to accommodate the rims of the cartridges. The noses of-the long or short cartridges bear against the forwardinclined wall of the magazine while the tops of the cartridge rims bear against the rear ,wall of the magazine 20, as plainly shown in Fig. 1.

c The cartridges 18 contained-in the magazine 20 are forced upward therein by a follower22 pressed on by a spring 23 resting. with its lower end. on a guide 24 seated in the upper faceof thebottom 25 of the magazine. The follower 22 is provided with a finger piece 30 projecting through slots 31 formed in the sides of the magazine 20. The fingerpiece'30 is usedto push the follower 22 downward to permit of loading the magazine withcartridges from thetop, it being only necessary to drop the cartridges one by one intothe magazine whilev cartridge as the latter passed-on into the barrel. To prevent undesirable action on c the leaden bullet of the secondcartridge by therim of the uppermost one is the main ob ect of the present invention presently defscribed in detail I i pushing the follower 22 correspondingly downward.

Theupper' rear portions of the sides of the magazine 20 are provided with rigid'mwardly'bent retaining lips 85 engaging the rim of the uppermost cartridge in the maga-.

sides of the uppermost'cartridge 18 while the lower retaining means 41 areadapted to engage the sides of the next following cartridge in the magazine 20; The retaining means shown in the drawings are in the form of spring tongues or lips 40, '41, of which the upper spring tongue forms an integral part of a main portion 42 which,

forms an integral part of the corresponding side of the magazine 20. The lower spring tongue forms an integral part of the upper spring tongue and its lower end 15 flared outwardly, as plainly indicated in Figs. 3 and 4. The main portions 42are bent inward toward each other, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, while theupper andlower spring tongues 40 and 41 of the two main portions 42 are normally approximately vertically disposed, and the spring tongues 40 bear against the sides of the uppermost cartridge and the spring tongues 41 bear against the sides of the next lower cartridge, as plainly shown in Fig. .4. When the magazine'isin position in the handle and the uppermost cartridge is pushed forward by the breech block then the. rim of the cartridge comes in contact with the upper casing provided at the upper'ends of the retaining means 40 and the latter are thus spread apart and in doing so the tension of the lower retaining means 41 on the second cartridge is increased and the sald retaimng means 41 act as a brake on the sides of the 7 said second cartridge, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 8. Thus the neXt following cartridge is firmly clamped by the lower retaining means 41 during the time the uppermost cartridge is pushed out of the magazine into the barrel 13 by theaction of the breech block 15, and the next following cartridge on account of being held in place by the lower retaining means is not liable to tilt the uppermost cartridge and hence does not interfere with the proper turn to normal innermost position, shown in Fig. 4. whereby the next following and 7 hence proper firing now uppermost cartridge is engaged by the upper retaining means to hold this cartridge in place. The upper retaining means 40 on returning to normal position relieve the lower retaining means 41 of their previously increasedtension thus allowing thelower retaining means to clamp with normal tension the next following cartridge pushed up by the action of the follower 22. From the foregoing it will be seenthat the bullet of the cartridge'next below the one pushed into the'barrel is not liable to be injured and and accurate shooting is obtained.

It is expressly understood that by the use of thelower retaining means 41 the nose ofthe next following or second cartridge in the magazine is held down during the time the uppermost cartridge is pushed v by the breech block 15 into the barrel, that is, until the uppermost cartridge has cleared the magazine. Without the use of the secondary or lowermost retaining means there is sometimes a tendency for the second cartridge to slide forward and upward far enough to have its leaden bullet scarred or gouged by the rim'of the uppermost cartridge when the latter is pushed into the "barrel thus destroying the accuracy of the bullet when this second cartridge is fired. It willalsobe noticed that the lower or cartridge on thelatter passing up into the path of the forward end of the breech block at the time the latter moves into rearmost position.

5 Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A magazme for firearms comprising a sides with retaining members each having a main rear portion integral with the corresponding side, and upper and lower spring tongues, the upper spring to'ngue forming an integral part of the said main rear portion at the forward edge thereof and the said lower spring tongue forming an integral part of the upper spring tongue.

2. A magazine for firearms comprising a casing provided atthe upper ends of the sides with retaining members each having a main rear portion integral with the corresponding side, and upper and lower spring. tongues, the upper'spring tongue forming an integral part of the-said main rear portion at the" forward edge thereof and the said lower" spring tongue forming an integral part of the upper spring tongue, the said main rear portion being bent inward and the said upper and lower spring tongues being approximately vertically disposed, the said upper spring tongue being adapted to by the uppermost cartridge and pressed out ward by the same on the cartridge leaving the magazine and forms part of the corresponding lower tongue which latter receives an increased tension by the outward movement of the upper tongue to bear firmly against the sides of the next following'cartridge to hold the latter against displacing the uppermost cartridge.

WALDO E. ROSEBUSH. 

